Metal Genres

Death Metal Underground

In the early 90s, as death metal waned into faster BPM "brutality" and grindcore disintegrated into politically-correct emopop, scene innovators were looking for the next frontier of the extreme and many, as former Napalm Death frontman Lee Dorrian did, sought out the boundaries of slowness and ponderous doomlike music to make their statements of social futurism.